A number of wireless keyboards have been exposing their owners to danger. As the owners broadcast their keystrokes, savvy hackers can intercept from hundreds of feet away.
A research published by the cybersecurity company - Bastille, stated that wireless keyboards (manufactured by substantial electronics companies) that send out information in a way that makes it possible for a hacker to spy on credit card number, password, sentence, and secret typed on them, according to The Atlantic.
Such major companies that got the wireless keyboards betrayed the owners are General Electric, HP and Toshiba. Also vulnerable to the attack are wireless keyboards from Kensington, Anker, Shack, EagleTec as well as the Best Buy's Insignia brand.
The attack of the hacker can work within 250 feet, which is about three fourths the length of a football field. With that information, hackers can't get a person internationally, and neither is anyone else who isn't in a person's physical neighborhood, CNET reported.
Marc Newlin (Bastille researcher) said in a statement that when a person purchase a wireless keyboard, that person reasonably expects that the manufacturer has designed and built security into the core of the product.
Newlin added that as they tested keyboards from 12 manufacturers, they were disappointed to find out that eight manufacturers were susceptible to the KeySniffer hack, based on the report of PC Mag.
The Bastille researcher also made it known that the USB dongle is constantly relaying a data wirelessly even if the owner is not typing on their keyboard. With that, it makes it easy for a hacker to breach in a building, room or area and these hackers can quickly identify all these keyboards that are vulnerable to this type of attack.
That being said, a spokeswoman for Kensington - Denise Nelson, stated that the company is collaborating with Bastille on security issues. And they have taken all measures that they possibly can to resolve any security gaps.
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